Public Pharmacy Schools

University of Michigan

• The College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan offers the four-year Doctor of Pharmacy degree, or Pharm.D, required to become a licensed pharmacist. Students generally require a four-year degree with the appropriate prerequisite courses.The school advertises that its program has a heavy emphasis on clinical training, but that the program can be tailored by the individual student to prepare for postgraduate training in the pharmaceutical field.

  University of Michigan College of Pharmacy

  428 Church Street

  Ann Arbor, MI 48103

  734-764-7312

University of California, San Francisco

• The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has a school of pharmacy that is the top ranked program in the nation. UCSF itself is an institution which has no undergraduate degrees, rather it consists solely of graduate medical programs. The School of Pharmacy at UCSF requires that all of its students take an identical foundational courseload their first two years, after which they can begin to specialize in pharmaceutical care, health services and policy research, or pharmaceutical sciences.

  Office of Student & Curricular Affairs

  513 Parnassus Avenue

  San Francisco, CA 94143

  415-476-2732

University of Florida

• The College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida offers the Pharm.D degree at all of its four campuses: Gainesville, Jacksonville, Orlando and St. Petersburg. The college draws the faculty that instruct the Pharm.D students from the departments of Pharmaceutics, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, and Medicinal Chemistry to provide experts from the different fields. The school advertises that it provides students with a curriculum of supervised experience in clinical and practical settings.

  University of Florida College of Pharmacy

  P.O. Box 100484

  Gainesville, FL 32610

  352-273-6312

University of Rhode Island

• The University of Rhode Island's College of Pharmacy offers a six-year Pharm.d program. This program allows high school graduates to apply to the program, then complete two years of pre-professional training to cover the prerequisite courses undergraduates would take to prepare themselves for pharmacy school, after which they begin the four years of professional training to earn the Pharm.D. Because of the high cost of training each pharmacist and the rigors of the program, admission is competitive.

  University of Rhode Island

  Fogarty Hall, 41 Lower College Road

  Kingston, RI 02881

  401-874-5842